TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, December 17, 2002

12:38 PM
Posted by jodi rose

hello again,
I've managed to extricate myself from the maelstrom of life's vortex which sucked me up for a while there, spinning me round to sydney and the south coast and spitting me out back on my porch in melbourne. It's a beautiful day here, sunny and warm and summery - at last, after that eternal autumn melbourne weather seems to indulge in.

Everyone around me seems to have been engulfed in christmas delirium - but I haven't gone there yet and don't intend to start now. There is no manic rushing round to catch up with everyone I have ever know for a drink 'before christmas' - hello, does the entire population just disappear in january? - and I haven't bought a single present.... well being on the meagre allowance provided by the fine art sponsors at the local fitzroy office helps with that, as does not having any friends.... (I'm joking. kind of) and taking the attitude that all these shiny things hanging from shops are part of a strange foreign custom that I know nothing about and don't understand and has nothing to do with me. (I'm a little bit bah humbug about xmas in case you hadn't picked that up - no real reason to be, there are no trauma scars from years passed, it's usually a very enjoyable celebration with my various family and orphan groups, but all the FUSS really bugs me)

Taking it very slowly, about to pick up my new computer and plug myself into it for a month or so - maybe when I come out of my room again the world will make sense and that american idiot won't be trying to force an insane war on us all. And I might even have some work done - the 13th miracle. I'm actually still really excited about making stuff with the sounds I've collected, and following through on all this, but that doesn't mean that focusing on it and really getting stuck into the work is happening that much. But then, at least I'm feeling positive and hopeful, albeit tinged with a sad melancholy after realising - yet again - that external circumstances really don't change anything much, and if you're going to be happy and fulfilled and loving and joyful, it comes from within.
Oh well, maybe I can take the week off - for christmas! - and come back refreshed in january.
merry mayhem and happy humbug to all my beloved friends and family, wherever you are, lets just hang out more next year.
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